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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.Listen to our new series of conversations, The Woman's Hour Guide to Life, on BBC Sounds - your toolkit for the juggle, struggle and everything in between: www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife
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First female Archbishop of Canterbury, Schiaparelli exhibition, Swiftynomics
Today marks a historic moment for the Church of England as Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church...
Naz Shah, 'Alpine divorce', Sexism at football matches
Naz Shah has been the MP for Bradford West since 2015, after a battle with George Galloway’s Respect Party, but her personal journey into politics is...
Dame Jenni Murray remembered, Elizabeth Moss and Kate Mara, Jane McDonald
NB The music in this broadcast has been removed from the podcast for rights reasons
We start today's programme with the sad news that Dame Jenni...
FIFA's women's football tournaments, Glasgow fire, Pilgrimages
New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach.
The...
FIFA's women's football tournaments, Women in Cuba, Adoption
New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach.
The...
Glasgow fire, Sibling relationships, Artist LR Vandy
**This programme has been edited since originally broadcast**
This month a legal case in the High Court has shed light on an industry of so-call...
18/03/2026
According to the UK Health Security Agency, five new cases of meningitis have been confirmed in Kent. Two people have died in the outbreak. Health Sec...
17/03/2026
Researchers in Australia have developed an AI tool that means a routine mammogram can also monitor your heart health. The study, published in Heart, t...
16/03/2026
It was an historic night for Ireland and for those watching in her home town of Killarney in County Kerry, as Jessie Buckley became the first Irish wo...
Leeds Maternity Review, Forgetting birthdays, the term ‘rough wooing’, Ashley Dalton MP, Maimuna Memon
The health secretary Wes Streeting has appointed senior midwife Donna Ockenden to lead a review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching...
CPR on women, AI toys, Maimuna Memon
New figures out from Thames Valley Air Ambulance show that women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR, with one in three female cardiac a...
Dunblane 30 years on, Catfishing, Forgetting birthdays
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre on Friday, presenter Anita Rani speaks to three women whose lives changed for ever that day; Me...
11/03/2026
The health secretary Wes Streeting has appointed senior midwife Donna Ockenden to lead a review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching...
Rape investigations, Ashley Dalton MP, Winter Paralympics, Comic novel Motherfaker
The government’s independent advisor on rape, Professor Katrin Hohl, is warning that despite an overhaul on how to investigate rape, there is a lack o...
09/03/2026
Iran has a new Supreme Leader, the hard-line cleric, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has succeeded his father who was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Matrescence, Ramadan & the 'sandwich generation', The Traitors' Harriet Tyce
The BBC has had exclusive access to the world’s largest study scanning pregnant women’s brains. The BeMOther project is based in Spain and has found t...
Iranian diaspora, Gen Z study, Onjali Rauf
Conflict continues in the Middle East, but with near total internet blackout in Iran, there's currently very little access to information from within...
Allergy training, A Woman of Substance, Ramadan & 'sandwich generation', Model Charli Howard
Schools in England must provide allergy awareness training for all staff for the first time, under new statutory guidance announced by the Department...
Matrescence, Mexico's 'searching mothers', New novel The Night Nag
The BBC has had exclusive access to the world’s largest study scanning pregnant women’s brains. The BeMOther project is based in Spain and has found t...
Sarah Everard anniversary, The Traitors' Harriet Tyce, Geniuses
Five years ago, Sarah Everard was abducted, raped and murdered by a Metropolitan Police officer. It was the catalyst for an outpouring of grief and an...
Women in Iran, George Eliot on stage, Professor Kate Pickett
On Saturday Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed after Israel and the US launched a "massive" and ongoing attack against Iran's lea...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, SEND reforms, Student midwives
A 40-year career retrospective of Dame Tracey Emin’s work has opened at the Tate Modern in London, featuring many of the artist’s most iconic pieces,...
Tracey Emin, Menstrual blood, Hannah Spencer MP
A 40-year career retrospective of Dame Tracey Emin’s work has opened at the Tate Modern in London, featuring many of the artist’s most iconic pieces,...
'Molly vs the Machines' doc, Female Afghan Ambassador, Maternity care, Cleopatra re-imagined
An interim report from Baroness Amos, who is leading a government-commissioned review into NHS maternity care in England, says maternity services are...
25/02/2026
A baby boy has become the first to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a deceased donor. Grace Bell, who is in her 30s, delivere...
SEND reforms: A Woman's Hour and SEND in the Spotlight special
Woman's Hour in collaboration with our SEND in the Spotlight podcast brings you a special programme on the impact of the government's SEND reforms in...
Marian Keyes, SEND, Designer Tolu Coker, Student midwives
Irish author Marian Keyes has sold over 30 million copies of her books worldwide over the past three decades. From her 1995 debut Watermelon to Rachel...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Rosamund Pike, Nadiya Hussain, Gisele Pelicot memoir, Dr Punam Krishan, Ketamine & young people
Rosamund Pike, the Emmy and Golden Globe winner, is known for standout roles in Saltburn, her Oscar nominated lead in Gone Girl, and Made in Dagenham....
Rosamund Pike, Ketamine, Author Madeline Cash, Winter Olympics
Rosamund Pike, the Emmy and Golden Globe winner, is known for standout roles in Saltburn, her Oscar nominated lead in Gone Girl, and Made in Dagenham....
George Sand, SEND provision leak, Dr Punam Krishan, Divine Feminine Opera
Children with special education needs and disabilities - known as SEND - in England will have their support reviewed as they move into secondary schoo...
18/02/2026
The woman tipped to be the next head of the UK Civil Service has faced multiple bullying complaints according to reports this morning. The Times newsp...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Kinship carers, Ashley James, Mia Brookes’s mum, impact of Ian Paterson's crimes, Charles Dickens’s women
More than 141,000 children are in kinship care in England and Wales. According to new research from the charity Kinship, 40% of kinship carers are for...
17/02/2026
In December 2024, Dominque Pelicot and 46 other men were found guilty of the aggravated rape of his wife Gisèle. Another two were found guilty of atte...
Nadiya Hussain, Actor Kate Fleetwood, 200 marathons in 200 days
It’s more than a decade since Nadiya Hussain became a household name after winning the Great British Bake Off. Since then, she’s fronted her own cooke...
13/02/2026
The Government yesterday published new guidance for schools in England on what to do when children question their gender. It says schools should not i...
Ashley James, Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Kinship carers
A story gripping headlines across the United States is the disappearance of 84‑year‑old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC News Today anchor Savannah Gu...
Virginia Giuffre’s co-author, SEND reforms, impact of Ian Paterson's crimes
Clare McDonnell speaks to Amy Wallace, the co-author of Virginia Giuffre's memoir, Nobody's Girl. Amy spent two years closely working with Virginia -...
10/02/2026
Team GB snowboarder Mia Brookes gave an amazing performance last night coming fourth in the women's snowboard big air final at the Winter Olympics in...
Epstein files, Lindsey Vonn, Knife crime, Charles Dickens' women
At the end of January, the US government released new files from its investigation into the sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Undercover Police Inquiry, Foster care expansion, AI boyfriends
The ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry started again this week. It is believed at least 50 women were duped into intimate relationships with undercov...